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Guardians of the Digital Age | Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian
Season 7
Episode 316
Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Description
A deep dive into Brewster Kahle’s journey from MIT engineer to the visionary founder of the Internet Archive. In this conversation, he reflects on building the Library of Alexandria for the digital age, the challenges of trust, regulation, and corporate dominance, and why universal access to knowledge remains one of the most important missions of our time.
00:35- About Brewster Kahle
Brewster Kahle is an American digital librarian, computer engineer, and Internet entrepreneur.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and engineering.
Kahle founded the Internet Archive( including Wayback Machine) and co-founded Alexa internet in 1996.